Job summary
Employer heading
Nurse Consultant Reducing Restrictive Practice
NHS AfC: Band 8b
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust has a rich history, well-established community links and an international reputation. We deliver specialist services in the London boroughs of Croydon, Lambeth, Lewisham and Southwark, Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, Wandsworth and Richmond.
We are committed to provide a high quality and specialist care to our service users and we are recognised for our care and treatment we provide. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’.
We launched our five-year strategy, Aiming High; Changing Lives in 2021 together with Our Care Improvement System as our quality management system methodology to make a positive impact on patient care, outcomes and staff experience. By joining SLaM, all staff will get the opportunity to be part of this exciting improvement journey supported with learning and development to harness everyone’s potential as change makers.
The trust recognises the unique and valuable contribution that people with lived experience of mental illness can bring to a role. We therefore welcome applications from people with lived experience and consider them as an asset to the Trust.
Our Values
We take pride in providing specialist care to our service users where our Trust values and our promise to be caring, kind, polite, prompt, honest, listen and do what I say I’m going to do is at the heart of everything we do. When you join us, you’ll be part of something special.
As a Trust we are happy to talk flexible working.
Job overview
The Trust is recruiting a Nurse Consultant Reducing Restrictive Practice for a 12-month secondment. The successful candidate will work as an autonomous practitioner providing senior expert, evidence-based practice to staff regarding restrictive practice and management of violence and aggression. Putting the patient at the centre of decisions and practice will be essential as well as the drive to coproduce. The post holder will lead on the Use of Force Act for the Trust.
Main duties of the job
This is a fantastic opportunity to gain experience working in a trust with clear aspirations to provide outstanding care across geography and an enviable range of services.
This role will appeal to someone who wants to lead the development and delivery of evidence-based restrictive practice across the Trust and Provide expert advice on restrictive practice issues within the Trust and externally, at local and national level.
The postholder will be expected to work autonomously as a credible independent practitioner making key decisions and to make clinical judgements involving highly complex facts or situations, which require the analysis, interpretation and comparison of a range of options.
Applicants must have the ability to build positive and effective professional relationships, work with a range of experienced leaders and be a credible nurse in practice
Working for our organisation
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust is a large and diverse organisation providing core mental health services to the Boroughs of Southwark, Lewisham, Lambeth and Croydon and specialist services both regionally and nationally. The Trust is also involved in a number of international mental health projects.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Registered nurse (mental health) on the NMC register
- • Masters degree relevant to the field
- • Evidence of extensive post registration professional development.
Desirable criteria
- • Non-medical prescriber
- • PhD in health related field
- • Post registration qualification relevant to the field
- • Registered general nurse
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Advanced knowledge and understanding of health care provision and the current policy agenda: mental health, restrictive practice, management of violence and aggression, nursing.
- • Up to date research evidence in the field
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of quality standards & policy regarding current Mental Health, Restrictive Practice , Management of Violence and Aggression best practice, guidance and legislation recommendations.
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Initiating and leading service developments
- • Providing education/ training (skills based and academic) to a range of professional groups
- • Conference presentations
- • Completion of research project
- • Proven track record of caseload management of people with co-morbid mental health and substance use problems
- • Experience of working clinically in mental health and substance misuse.
- • Work in a range of settings eg inpatient, community, residential
- • Development and implementation of strategies/policies/protocols
- • Identifying and establishing collaborative relationships across professional groups and organisations, and managing those relationships with sensitivity and diplomacy.
Desirable criteria
- • Publications
- • Working with diverse communities.
- • Contribute to national policy development
- • Work/employment in statutory and voluntary sector
- • Conducting service evaluations
- • Working collaboratively with service users and/or carers to develop services
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julie Heyward
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07794563169
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